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PerrineClostermann posted:So this popped up on my news feed... That's a particularly dour reporting job. AnandTech and Tech Report are much more neutral-to-positive.
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Menacer posted:They're aware that IBM's engineers have produced microarchitectures that perform worlds better than anyone working in the ARM world so far. A little late to this, but are any of them still there? I really enjoyed The Race for a New Game Machine, but from more recent news it doesn't sound like that culture is supported any more. Which really sucks for a lot of reasons. We all agree that ISA is irrelevant. Decode takes a tiny fraction of die space. But if you could make a new design from the ground up, like what happened at IBM in the early '00s, there are some out-there uarchs that might be competitive. We'll never know until there's Arduino-level tools for playing with new architectures.
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POWER architecture has been around for some time and claims to be gearing up to face down Intel from the high end, while ARM continues to challenge on the low end and even MIPS making some noise as they are expecting to be supported in the next Android release. Will they be successful? Hopefully at least enough that it benefits consumers.
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JawnV6 posted:A little late to this, but are any of them still there? I really enjoyed The Race for a New Game Machine, but from more recent news it doesn't sound like that culture is supported any more. As an example, the ARM A57 (which Qualcomm picked over their custom designs this gen not just to pick up 64-bit) is basically straight out of Hennessy & Patterson. All of the thousands of little iterative things you do to squeeze performance out of a core don't exist yet. This won't even begin to change until their 2015-2016 design refresh. To be clear, I'm not saying that ARM design houses can't hit that performance level. It will take engineering time and money, however, and most of these folks are designing for smart phones in bulk, tablets at the high end, and maybe dense mid-performance servers. The companies pushing for the latter will be the ones that might find their designs in the HPC market -- but for now, it looks like Nvidia is betting the near term on POWER designs. (With Samsung dropping their ARM server designs and joining OpenPOWER, they might be doing the same for servers.) I wouldn't expect Denver, the closest to your desire for a fresh uarch and which is very much targeted at smartphones, to be optimized for HPC, and that likely won't change for a few generations at the earliest. As an aside, OpenPOWER is an amazing conglomeration of politics. The POWER division of IBM wants markets that are not the sales and services divisions, because they get hosed on profit margins there (e.g. sales division gets huge bonuses for bringing in massive profits, while the hardware division gets yelled at for not making any money when all their hardware goes to Sales at cost). Google wants beige box POWER servers built by companies like Tyan in order to force Intel to drop Xeon prices, as they're one of the few companies that would follow through with the threat to switch their internal stack to a different ISA. (They'll probably let Tyan and IBM eat poo poo once Intel gives them better deals, though) Nvidia and Mellanox want SoCs targetted at HPC with both GPGPU and communication on-chip, because one of the big complaints coming from the big HPC customers is that discrete cards sitting over a PCIe bus are awful. Knight's Landing sitting in a QPI-enabled socket with all of the system's DRAM will basically wreck the discrete accelerator market in supercomputers (and IIRC, KNL will have on-chip communication hardware as well). HPC is likely why Altera has hopped on, as well. My reasoning above is why I believe they won't be building ARM-based SoCs yet. Menacer fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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JawnV6 posted:We'll never know until there's Arduino-level tools for playing with new architectures. You can get quite far with FPGAs. It isn't quite as simple, but considering you are designing a loving CPU... (Two cool "actually used in the wild" ISA CPUs implemented here. Next up: Coldfire!)
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Rastor posted:POWER architecture has been around for some time and claims to be gearing up to face down Intel from the high end, while ARM continues to challenge on the low end and even MIPS making some noise as they are expecting to be supported in the next Android release.
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No Gravitas posted:You can get quite far with FPGAs. It isn't quite as simple, but considering you are designing a loving CPU... Even if you did have a working system, though, if your DRAM is running at DDR2 or DDR3 speeds and your FPGA-implemented processor is running at 100 MHz, the performance numbers you get will be all out of whack. You'll have too much bandwidth and too little memory latency, for instance. You wouldn't optimize this design the same way you would optimize a design trying to run 30x as fast and with 4-16x as many cores sharing the memory controller. OpenSPARC ran into this problem -- you could only fit a single core onto the Xilinx FPGA they would sell to you. This was out of 8 that you would find in a real design. In addition, their memory controller, I/O, etc. were all emulated in software on the FPGA's embedded hard cores. And this was an in-order core. I can't, off the top of my head, remember any projects that used OpenSPARC for performance analysis. The other major problem is that, after you've implemented all of this in e.g. Verilog, it's very difficult to change things. You can't go back into a design and quickly sweep through a lot of design space options. Making a more generic hardware descriptions language was the goal of the bluespec project, but I haven't seen many people using it to search uarch options. Jawn, maybe you would be interested in FabScalar.
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Menacer posted:To be clear, I'm not saying that ARM design houses can't hit that performance level. It will take engineering time and money, however, and most of these folks are designing for smart phones in bulk, tablets at the high end, and maybe dense mid-performance servers. The companies pushing for the latter will be the ones that might find their designs in the HPC market -- but for now, it looks like Nvidia is betting the near term on POWER designs. (With Samsung dropping their ARM server designs and joining OpenPOWER, they might be doing the same for servers.) I wouldn't expect Denver, the closest to your desire for a fresh uarch and which is very much targeted at smartphones, to be optimized for HPC, and that likely won't change for a few generations at the earliest. From my new position, I'm not so certain the "feature toolbox" is such a gamechanger. It's certainly very useful and helpful. But there's huuuuuge benefits to working in an ecosystem. Think about the debug toolchain. IBM has one team delivering it. ARM has 3~4 companies actively fighting for that slice of the pie. A lot of that is for downstream consumers, but the tooling of an ecosystem is going to beat a monolithic entity. Menacer posted:As an aside, OpenPOWER is an amazing conglomeration of politics. The POWER division of IBM wants markets that are not the sales and services divisions, because they get hosed on profit margins there (e.g. sales division gets huge bonuses for bringing in massive profits, while the hardware division gets yelled at for not making any money when all their hardware goes to Sales at cost). No Gravitas posted:You can get quite far with FPGAs. It isn't quite as simple, but considering you are designing a loving CPU... I want a smart agent that can arbitrarily modify any cache line that passes it with a 1 cycle penalty. I want two implementations of the same ISA that can transfer uarch state through a sideband. I want to expose that knob to my compiler instead of hiding things behind a DVFS table hack with thousands of cycles to shuffle things over. I want my DDR controller to support atomic operations so that my cards can set flags without 8 round trips. Menacer posted:The other major problem is that, after you've implemented all of this in e.g. Verilog, it's very difficult to change things. You can't go back into a design and quickly sweep through a lot of design space options. Making a more generic hardware descriptions language was the goal of the bluespec project, but I haven't seen many people using it to search uarch options. Other metaphors: "Don't tell me where to put the studs, just tell me how many rooms you want", "LINQ lets you ask the compiler for 'what' data you want, instead of specifying 'how' to generate it operation by operation" Menacer posted:Jawn, maybe you would be interested in FabScalar.
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JawnV6 posted:I used to think, re: the x86 vs. ARM debate, that x86 would shrink down and have this giant 'toolbox' of features to pick and choose from since they'd done much bigger, full-featured designs. Like the tradeoffs between 4-2-2-2 decoding vs. 4-4-1 were common knowledge without the need to prototype or investigate. While ARM was having to grow up and out and build the toolbox as they went and choose where R&D efforts have to be spent. Blue spec was at one point haskell hdl Arch does not matter at all on the server space because I guarantee you that the vast majority of code is some lob junk running on a vm on a vm on a vm What matters is tco in the aggregate data center but even that's not being measured by programmers and in all honesty there is not a whole lot a new general purpose Isa is gonna do What not how is a very powerful technique to model a lot of domains and it's not surprising it helps hardware design out Would be interesting to see what can be done. The mill vapor ware is kind of interesting just for that alone
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Menacer posted:Jawn, maybe you would be interested in FabScalar. I ended up requesting access to the group for this. Someone peeked at my Linkedin, haven't heard anything else from it though.
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The student probably graduated and never updated the owner of the group. Try emailing Eric or one of his current grad students to see what the hell is up.
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AMD just announced earnings. Profits down 65%, they are going to lay off 7% of staff (about 700 people).
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Rastor posted:AMD just announced earnings. Profits down 65%, they are going to lay off 7% of staff (about 700 people). In particular their GPU revenue is really starting to decline. That's one of their lifelines at this point, so that's not a good sign. They really need to get their new GPU architecture out ASAP. Supposedly their fab has been struggling with the 20nm process node.
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The Nvidia 9xx series might be the final nail in the coffin. Far as I can tell there just isn't a reason to buy anything else right now unless all you need is a (low margin) budget card. I hope AMD pulls through but it looks really bad.
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Panty Saluter posted:The Nvidia 9xx series might be the final nail in the coffin. Far as I can tell there just isn't a reason to buy anything else right now unless all you need is a (low margin) budget card. I hope AMD pulls through but it looks really bad.
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How likely is it that we are to see AMD make a concerted jump straight to Samsung's 14nm-or-whatever-sub-20nm process? GPU, APU, and CPU, I mean? I might actually entertain buying an AMD product at that point, but right now, I want to take my AMD and AMD rig and fling it off the top of my building. (no CPUs worth writing home about, gently caress atikmdag.sys and destinythegame.com's web video being a 100% guaranteed BSOD on my computer/drivers/video card/whatever.)
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SwissArmyDruid posted:gently caress atikmdag.sys and destinythegame.com's web video being a 100% guaranteed BSOD on my computer/drivers/video card/whatever.
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:Vine videos on Tumblr in Firefox BSOD me within ~1 minute of watching them, but Chrome is immune. Might want to try switching browsers at least for some content/sites if this is the same for you. Vine doesn't do any of that to me, but Chrome is the only browser I use and it isn't immune to BSOD.
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Over in the parts picking thread I'm waffling between a Celeron J1900 and an AMD APU of some kind for a low power HTPC/minimal gaming system. The only game I'm likely to play any of is Portal 2. I get pretty decent performance out of it, at least in a brief test, on my 8W 1 GHz A6-1450 netbook, but I'm not sure how that'll translate to a 1080p TV. I'm assuming a newer 10W 2 GHz Intel will outperform it CPU-wise, and I have a Radeon 6550 that is more than enough to carry the GPU end of things should it be necessary. But if I go with an AMD, what would be a good starting point for not much more than the $70 all-in-one ASRock Q1900M for the Intel? It won't be powered on all the time so power use isn't as big a concern, although I do like the passive cooling on the Celeron. But if I can get significantly better performance from an AMD for not much more money, I think I might, especially if I can get an all-in-one and free up the possibility of mITX since I still need to fit in a capture card.
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EX-GAIJIN AT LAST posted:Over in the parts picking thread I'm waffling between a Celeron J1900 and an AMD APU of some kind for a low power HTPC/minimal gaming system. The only game I'm likely to play any of is Portal 2. I get pretty decent performance out of it, at least in a brief test, on my 8W 1 GHz A6-1450 netbook, but I'm not sure how that'll translate to a 1080p TV. I'm assuming a newer 10W 2 GHz Intel will outperform it CPU-wise, and I have a Radeon 6550 that is more than enough to carry the GPU end of things should it be necessary. your starting point would be Kabini: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7933/the-desktop-kabini-review-part-1-athlon-5350-am1 http://www.anandtech.com/show/8067/amd-am1-kabini-part-2-athlon-53505150-and-sempron-38502650-tested These are kinda like what intel is doing with the J1900. further up would be the regular socket FM2 APUs. Here is the J1900 to compare to: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8595/the-battle-of-bay-trail-d-gigabyte-j1900n-d3v-asus-j1900i-c-review Remember that the GPU needs of 1080p are vastly higher than a netbook screen that is probably 1366x768 at most. Honestly, having taken a closer look at the performance, I think you should stick with a regular Haswell celeron, and a cheap motherboard, and throw in your old GPU. Failing that, I think the J1900 + your old GPU. Kaveri APUs might be decent, but that would cost more since the APUs themselves are more expensive than Celerons, and given that you already have a GPU to reuse, the integrated GPU would have to outperform the 6550 to be worthwhile - you'd need to research it. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Worst case scenario I can just play on the netbook, since that I know already does well enough; I just hadn't really considered it would even be worth trying until now. Looking at the benchmarks it seems the J1900 is close to par with a moderate Core 2 Duo even in single thread, and that's really all I need still for this system. The only reason I'm even doing an upgrade is for a smaller case (my old one is an overclocked Pentium E2160 on a full ATX board in a mid tower, on a motherboard that has lost its NIC) and an SSD, plus the power supply is getting quite old, although in the last 3 years or so it's seen a lot less use. Performance-wise it's still fine, but moving to a mATX HTPC case means a new motherboard anyway, so I might as well spend my money on something new rather than trying to find a Socket 775 board at this point.
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I love my ASRock Q1900-ITX, but I do not expect it to game. Portal 2 is a struggle for my laptop, which has an older Sandy Bridge CPU with Intel HD 3000 graphics, and the J1900's GPU is certainly not better. If you want local gaming (and not just Steam Home Streaming like I use, for which the J1900 works great), then I would definitely favor an AM1 APU. The CPU strength is actually equal, with a far better GPU. The downside is power consumption - 25W vs. 10W for Bay Trail D. Now, that 15W is important to me for an always-on NAS/HTPC, but for a system that actually gets turned off, you may struggle to give a poo poo.
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I let my girls leave on a 13W CFL in the hallway all night as a sort of night light; I'm not going to sweat something like that for a system that'll be on a couple of hours a day at most. However, the 6550 does quite well in this game at 1080p already, so if the CPU power is equal I'm still favoring the Celeron. Part of me does wonder about longevity, I admit, and I loved the challenge of extreme overclocking the E2160. I nearly reached 3 GHz with a crazy overvolt, although for everyday use I backed it off to a more reasonable 50% overclock, and I obviously still like talking about it to this day, so the G3258 still holds some vanity/futureproofing appeal (as it were). Something that occurred to me, and maybe I should take this back to the parts picking or overclocking thread, is actually undervolting a G3258 for better temps in a smallish case. I'm assuming that is still an option on overclocking motherboards.
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EX-GAIJIN AT LAST posted:I let my girls leave on a 13W CFL in the hallway all night as a sort of night light; I'm not going to sweat something like that for a system that'll be on a couple of hours a day at most. Just run the 3258 at stock...temperatures aren't an issue. Or get one of the cheaper non overclocking pentiums.
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Anyone else have this friend? He blows $1000+ at Frys and has to show off his build. I tried talking him into exchanging his CPU before opening everything up. He got a r9 270, so the slight benefits of getting an APU are irrelevant. This is AMD's customer.
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Civil posted:Anyone else have this friend? He blows $1000+ at Frys and has to show off his build. I tried talking him into exchanging his CPU before opening everything up. He got a r9 270, so the slight benefits of getting an APU are irrelevant. I've seen a few but luckily none are personal friends. They tend to be the type that are completely certain that larger numbers are better and that all comparisons, even between different chip architectures, are apples to apples. Being religiously brand loyal, even to a brand that had nothing amazing to offer until the Athlon, adds to their fervor. I've got an old Cyrix 586 that was made for this kind of person (in 1996 or 97 or whatever).
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We call this guy Travis. I know a guy who knows exactly how bad an idea all of this is but does it anyway out of some sort of misplaced loyalty or something.
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Civil posted:Anyone else have this friend? He blows $1000+ at Frys and has to show off his build. I tried talking him into exchanging his CPU before opening everything up. He got a r9 270, so the slight benefits of getting an APU are irrelevant. AMD's current offerings are what I recommend to people I don't like very much, but am obligated to support for whatever reason.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:AMD's current offerings are what I recommend to people I don't like very much, but am obligated to support for whatever reason. Is you plan to slowly roast a person in his home using an AMD processor?
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Beautiful Ninja posted:Is you plan to slowly roast a person in his home using an AMD processor? My plan is to trap them on 990FX.
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I dont have people that stupid in my life
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Maybe your friend is earning fat stacks by astroturfing.
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For those who are friends with idiots bragging about an AMD APU purchase, those just got price cuts.
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keyvin posted:Maybe your friend is earning fat stacks by astroturfing.
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Civil posted:That's cool, I'm paid off by Intel. Got my fanboy check last night in the mail. I used to be a fanboy, but once you take a life in defense of your fandom you become a fanman. No coming back from that. There are a couple subreddits for building PCs, and people in there recommend AMD stuff all the time. I have no idea why.
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canyoneer posted:I used to be a fanboy, but once you take a life in defense of your fandom you become a fanman. No coming back from that. I think that there is a niche that, for anyone with a modicum of computer experience, is occupied by the Pentium AE. Because why would you go for the Athlon II X4 whatever or FX 6- or 4-core bullshit, when you can get an AE and crank that poo poo to 4.2Ghz on air with a modest aftermarket cooler like a Hyper 212? For anyone who *doesn't* have this experience, and if you're asking in a PC-building subreddit, you probably don't, sure, I can see where the AMD would make more sense on a non-overclocking price/performance basis. Because it's not really until you put the spurs to the G3258 that it shines. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I think that there is a niche that, for anyone with a modicum of computer experience, is occupied by the Pentium AE. Because why would you go for the Athlon II X4 whatever or FX 6- or 4-core bullshit, when you can get an AE and crank that poo poo to 4.2Ghz on air with a modest aftermarket cooler like a Hyper 212? When I read the reviews stating that you could hit 4.2ghz comfortably on air with a modest $30 cooler, all I could think was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL4em-Xv5o&t=73s
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